Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the rebel advocate for the rights of Muslim women, explains her beliefs in her book Infidel.
Anne Applebaum reviews the life of a woman whose unrelenting hostility to Islam requires her to be protected by bodyguards wherever she goes

In 1989, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali Muslim, supported the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. But on moving to Europe her views changed and she turned against Islam. Two years ago she fled Holland after the brutal murder of her artistic collaborator Theo van Gogh. Andrew Anthony meets the fierce critic who lives under the constant threat of death.